This Amendment No. 8, being filed by (i) Philips Pension Trustees Limited (“Philips Pension Trustees”), a private limited company organized under the laws of England and Wales, (ii) PPTL Investment LP, a limited partnership organized under the laws of Scotland (“PPTL LP”) and (iii) PPTL Investment Limited, a Scottish company limited by guarantee (“GP” and together with Philips Pension Trustees and PPTL LP, the “Reporting Persons”), amends the Schedule 13D initially filed on September 17, 2010 (“Original 13D”), as amended by Amendment No. 1 filed on November 2, 2010 (“First Amendment”), Amendment No. 2 filed on April 6, 2011 (“Second Amendment”), Amendment No. 3 filed on July 6, 2011 (“Third Amendment”) Amendment No. 4 filed on July 19, 2011 (“Fourth Amendment”), Amendment No. 5 filed on November 1, 2011 (“Fifth Amendment”), Amendment No. 6 filed on November 8, 2011 (“Sixth Amendment”) and Amendment No. 7 filed on February 17, 2012 (“Seventh Amendment” and together with the First Amendment, Second Amendment, Third Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment, the “Prior Amendments”) relating to the beneficial ownership of common stock, nominal value €.20 per share (“Common Stock”), of NXP Semiconductors N.V. (the “Issuer”), a public company with limited liability incorporated under the laws of The Netherlands. The principal executive office of the Issuer is located at High Tech Campus 60, 5656 AG Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Information reported in the Original 13D, as amended or superseded by information contained in the Prior Amendments remains in effect except to the extent that it is amended or superseded by information contained in this Amendment. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined have the meanings ascribed to them in the Original 13D, as amended by the Prior Amendments.
Item 5. Interest in Securities of the Issuer
Item 5 of the Original 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:
(a) As a result of the sales of the shares of Common Stock described in (c) below, PPTL LP directly owns 28,328,267 shares of Common Stock representing approximately 11.47% of the outstanding Common Stock, based on 247,015,804 shares of Common Stock outstanding (as reported in the Form 6-K Report of Foreign Private Issuer, filed on November 10, 2011, File No. 001-34841).
GP does not directly own any shares of Common Stock but, as the general partner of PPTL LP, has the power to direct the voting and disposition of all of the 28,328,267 shares of Common Stock held by PPTL LP. Philips Pension Trustees is the sole member of GP (and may therefore elect GP’s board of directors) and is the sole limited partner of PPTL LP. As such, the Reporting Persons may be deemed to have formed a group within the meaning of Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and each of GP and Philips Pension Trustees may be deemed to possess shared beneficial ownership of the 28,328,267 shares of Common Stock held by PPTL LP.
KPENV may appoint the majority of the board of directors of Philips Pension Trustees. In addition, the Amended Transfer Agreement limits the ability of PPTL LP as the holder of the Transfer Shares to dispose of the Transfer Shares without the consent of KPENV. Furthermore, the Shareholders’ Agreement grants KPENV the right to nominate one non-executive member of the Issuer’s board of directors and requires PPTL LP to vote the Transfer Shares in favor of such nominee.
By virtue of (A) the Shareholders’ Agreement, which contains (i) certain restrictions on the transfer of shares of Common Stock held by the parties thereto, (ii) certain agreements as to the voting of such shares, (iii) drag-along provisions requiring the sale of such shares in certain circumstances and (iv) tag-along provisions permitting the parties thereto to participate in the sale of Common Stock by another party, and (B) with respect to KPENV, the Amended Transfer Agreement, which contains the provisions described above, the Reporting Persons may be deemed to have formed a group, within the meaning of Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Rule 13d-5 promulgated thereunder, with KPENV and the other parties to the Shareholders’ Agreement, including the consortium of funds advised by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P., Bain Capital Partners, LLC, Silver Lake Management Company, L.L.C., Apax Partners LLP and AlpInvest Partners N.V. and NXP Co-Investment Partners L.P. (collectively, the “Private Equity Consortium”). As a result, beneficial ownership of the 132,762,570 shares of Common Stock held directly or indirectly by the Private Equity Consortium (as reported in the aggregate in the relevant parties’ respective Schedules 13G/A filed on February 14, 2012), may be attributed to the Reporting Persons, which would result in the beneficial ownership by the Reporting Persons of