This Amendment No. 3 (this “Amendment”) amends and supplements the Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO (the “Schedule TO”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on January 17, 2012 by FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation, a corporation organized under the laws of Japan (“Parent”), and by Salmon Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Purchaser”) and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent. This Schedule TO relates to the offer by Purchaser to purchase all outstanding shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Shares”), of SonoSite, Inc., a Washington corporation (the “Company”), at a purchase price of $54.00 per Share, net to the seller in cash, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated January 17, 2012 (the “Offer to Purchase”) and in the related Letter of Transmittal (which, together with the Offer to Purchase and any amendments or supplements thereto, collectively constitute the “Offer”).
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. Capitalized terms used and not defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Offer to Purchase.
Documentation relating to the Offer has been mailed to the Company’s stockholders and may be obtained free of charge at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov, and may also be obtained at no charge by directing a request by mail to the information agent for the Offer, Innisfree M&A Incorporated, at 501 Madison Avenue, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10022, or by calling toll-free at (877) 717-3930 or collect at (212) 750-5833 for banks and brokers.
Item 11.
In Section 15 “Certain Legal Matters and Regulatory Approvals”, the text appearing under the heading “Legal Proceedings” is hereby amended and supplemented by deleting the third, and fourth paragraphs in their entirety and adding the following text as new third, fourth, and fifth paragraphs of that section:
“A third purported class action lawsuit was filed in connection with the planned acquisition of the Company by Parent in the Superior Court of Washington in King County on February 2, 2012. The plaintiffs, Raymond Montminy, Sr. and Brian Snow, purport to bring this suit as a class action on behalf of the public stockholders of the Company. The complaint alleges that the Company’s directors breached their fiduciary duties by failing to follow a proper sales procedure and failing to procure a fair price for the shareholders of SonoSite. The complaint also alleges that the directors breached their fiduciary duties through materially inadequate disclosures and material omissions. In addition, the complaint alleges that the Company aided and abetted the breaches of fiduciary duties by the Board of Directors of SonoSite.
All plaintiffs seek injunctive relief, damages in an unspecified amount, and attorney’s fees and costs.
On January 5, 2012, the Snohomish County court approved the transfer of the Raul action to King County. Parent and Purchaser expect all three complaints will be consolidated into a single proceeding after the transfer to King County is complete.”
Item 12 of the Schedule TO is amended and supplemented by adding the following:
(a)(11) Complaint captioned Raymond Montminy, Sr. and Brian Snow v. SonoSite, Inc. et al., Case Number 12-2-04412-1 SEA filed on February 2, 2012 in the Superior Court of Washington – King County.