Consummation of the Merger is subject to certain conditions, including, but not limited to, (i) Oak Street Health’s receipt of the approval of the Merger Agreement by stockholders holding a majority of the voting power of the outstanding shares of Oak Street Health Common Stock, (ii) the expiration or early termination of the applicable waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, (iii) the absence of any law, injunction, judgment, decision or order (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) prohibiting, enjoining or otherwise making illegal the consummation of the Merger, and (iv) the absence of any Oak Street Health Material Adverse Effect (as defined in the Merger Agreement) since the date of the Merger Agreement. The Closing is not conditioned upon Parent’s ability to obtain financing.
Oak Street Health has made customary representations and warranties in the Merger Agreement and has agreed to customary covenants regarding the operation of the business of Oak Street Health and its subsidiaries prior to the Effective Time. The Merger Agreement also includes covenants requiring Oak Street Health not to: (i) solicit, initiate, propose or knowingly induce, the making of any offer or proposal that constitutes or would reasonably be expected to lead to an acquisition proposal; (ii) furnish any non-public information relating to Oak Street Health or any of its subsidiaries or any Affiliated Practice (as defined in the Merger Agreement) to any person (other than Parent, Merger Sub, or any designees of Parent or Merger Sub) in connection with the making, submission or announcement of, or to knowingly encourage, induce or facilitate, an inquiry, proposal or offer that constitutes or would reasonably be expected to lead to an acquisition proposal; (iii) participate or engage in discussions or negotiations with any third party with respect to an inquiry, proposal or offer that constitutes or would reasonably be expected to lead to an acquisition proposal; (iv) approve, endorse or recommend an acquisition proposal; or (v) enter into any agreement with respect to an acquisition proposal. However, if the Oak Street Health Board receives an acquisition proposal (that did not result from a breach of the no-shop covenants in the Merger Agreement, other than a de minimis breach) and following such receipt, the Oak Street Health Board determines in good faith, after consultation with its financial advisors and outside legal counsel, that such acquisition proposal constitutes or would reasonably be expected to lead to a superior proposal and the failure to take such action would reasonably be likely to be inconsistent with the Oak Street Health Board’s fiduciary duties under applicable law, then Oak Street Health Board is permitted, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, to terminate the Merger Agreement and change its recommendation to Oak Street Health’s stockholders to vote to approve the Merger Agreement (subject to certain matching rights in favor of Parent).
The Merger Agreement contains certain termination rights for each of Oak Street Health and Parent. Oak Street Health will be required to pay Parent a termination fee in an amount equal to $300,000,000, (i) if the Merger Agreement is terminated due to Oak Street Health accepting a superior proposal, (ii) if the Merger Agreement is terminated due to the Oak Street Health Board changing its recommendation to Oak Street Health’s stockholders to vote to approve the Merger Agreement or (iii) if the Merger Agreement is terminated (A) (x) due to failure obtain the required approval of the Merger by a majority of Oak Street Health’s stockholders or (y) due to Oak Street Health’s uncured breach of its representations, warranties and covenants set forth in the Merger Agreement, (B) prior to the taking of a vote or the breach, as applicable, giving rise to such termination right, a third party shall have publicly made an acquisition proposal, and (C) within 12 months of such termination of the Merger Agreement, Oak Street Health enters into or consummates any alternate acquisition transaction.
The Merger Agreement further provides that Parent will be required to pay Oak Street Health a termination fee in an amount equal to $500,000,000 in the event the Merger Agreement is terminated under certain specified circumstances and receipt of antitrust approval has not been obtained by such time.
The foregoing description of the Merger Agreement does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full text of the Merger Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 2.1 hereto and is incorporated by reference herein.
The Merger Agreement has been included to provide investors with information regarding its terms. It is not intended to provide any other factual information about Oak Street Health, Parent, CVS Health, Merger Sub or their respective affiliates. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Merger Agreement were made only for purposes of the Merger Agreement as of the specific dates therein, were solely for the benefit of the parties to the Merger Agreement, may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties, including being qualified by confidential disclosures made for the purposes of allocating contractual risk among the parties to the Merger Agreement instead of establishing these matters as facts, and may be subject to standards of materiality