This Amendment No. 4 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 7, 2019, amends and supplements the Tender Offer Statement filed on Schedule TO (as amended or supplemented, the “Schedule TO”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 14, 2018, by: (i) Adriatic Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Purchaser”) and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of Delaware (“GSK LLC”), which is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline plc, a public limited company organized under the laws of England and Wales (“Parent”), (ii) GSK LLC and (iii) Parent. The Schedule TO relates to the offer by Purchaser to purchase all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (each, a “Share” and collectively, the “Shares”) of TESARO, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), for $75.00 per Share, net to the holder in cash, without interest, subject to any withholding taxes required by applicable law, and on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, dated December 14, 2018 (together with any amendments or supplements thereto, the “Offer to Purchase”) and in the accompanying Letter of Transmittal (together with any amendments or supplements thereto, the “Letter of Transmittal,” and together with the Offer to Purchase, the “Offer”), copies of which are attached to the Schedule TO as Exhibits (a)(1)(a) and (a)(1)(b), respectively. The information set forth in the Offer to Purchase, including all schedules thereto, and the related Letter of Transmittal is incorporated herein by reference with respect to all of the applicable items in the Schedule TO, except that such information is hereby amended and supplemented to the extent provided herein.
This Amendment is being filed on behalf of Parent, GSK LLC and Purchaser. All capitalized terms used in this Amendment and not otherwise defined have the respective meanings ascribed to them in the Schedule TO. Except as otherwise set forth in this Amendment, the information set forth in the Schedule TO remains unchanged and is incorporated herein by reference to the extent relevant to the items in this Amendment. This Amendment should be read together with the Schedule TO.
Item 11. Additional Information.
The Offer to Purchase and Item 11 of the Schedule TO, to the extent Item 11 incorporates by reference the information contained in the Offer to Purchase, are hereby amended and supplemented by adding the followingsub-heading and paragraph at the end of Section 16. “Certain Legal Matters; Regulatory Approvals” of the Offer to Purchase:
Certain Litigation
On January 4, 2019, a purported stockholder of the Company named Richard Scarantino filed a putative class action lawsuit against the Company, members of the Company Board, Purchaser and Parent in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, captionedScarantino v. TESARO, Inc., et al., Case No. 19-cv-00023 (the “Scarantino Complaint”). The Scarantino Complaint alleges that the Company and the members of the Company Board violated Sections 14(e) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act, as well as Rules14a-9 and14d-9, by failing to disclose material information in the Solicitation/Recommendation Statement filed on Schedule14D-9 with the SEC in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, which the Scarantino Complaint alleges rendered the Solicitation/Recommendation Statement false and misleading. In addition, the Scarantino Complaint alleges that members of the Company Board and Parent acted as controlling persons of the Company within the meaning and in violation of Section 20(a) of the Exchange Act to influence and control the dissemination of the allegedly defective Solicitation/Recommendation Statement. The Scarantino Complaint seeks, among other things, an order enjoining consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement; rescission of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement if they have already been consummated and rescissory damages; an order directing the Company Board to file a Solicitation/Recommendation Statement that does not contain any untrue statements of material fact and that states all material facts required in it or necessary to make the statements contained therein not misleading; a declaration that the defendants violated Sections 14(e), 14(d), 20(a) of the Exchange Act and Rule14a-9; and an award of plaintiff’s costs, including reasonable allowance for attorneys’ fees and experts’ fees.
The outcome of this lawsuit cannot be predicted with certainty. If a preliminary injunction were to be granted, it could delay or jeopardize the completion of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, and an adverse judgment granting permanent injunctive relief could indefinitely enjoin the completion of such transactions. If additional similar complaints are filed, absent new or different allegations that are material, Parent will not necessarily announce such additional filings.
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